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October 28th 2016:Becoming An Entrepreneur Who Thrives in Business Rather than Crumbles

THE LONELY ENTREPRENEUR , Michael Dermer reveals how the constant chaos, adrenaline rush, and burden of being an entrepreneur causes many and diverse entrepreneurs to develop damaging ‘perspectives ’on the business and personal issues that come with the territory. He shares the insights and methodology that not only saved his own company, but have made the difference between success and failure for hundreds of struggling startups and entrepreneurs. “It’s how we manage the struggle of being the entrepreneur,” he attests, based on his harrowing experience as an industry pioneer who watched the

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Michael Dermer

Michael is an entrepreneur, speaker, lawyer and founder/author of The Lonely Entrepreneur. Michael is considered the founder of not only a company, but an industry – rewarding individuals for healthy behavior. Michael left a promising law career to start IncentOne, the first company to provide rewards for healthy behavior. After bootstrapping for a decade, his company received a large private ​equity investment in 2008. It should have been a time for celebration. Then the financial crisis hit. Ten years were gone in ten days. It would take two years of working 24 hours a day to save what took ten years to build. Today, health rewards are everywhere, he sold IncentOne to industry innovator